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Shelton Drainage - Hire and Contracting Services

Shelton Hire / Partnership
The full range of Shelton equipment is available for hire with or without operator. This gives our customers access to our latest models without the expense of buying new. A popular method of hiring equipment is through our partnership scheme.

Shelton provides the specialist equipment and skilled labour and the customer provides any additional equipment and labour. Working in this way can reduce costs significantly over direct contracting, whilst maintaining quality.

Shelton also hires tractors, all under three years old, shod on wide turf tyres, with creep speed gearboxes, ranging from 45hp to 100hp.


Shelton Contracting
Shelton undertake a full contracting service which includes pipe laying, sand slitting and gravel banding on any sportsturf amenity. We are members of the Land Drainage Contractors Association.

All materials can be supplied including perforated land drainage pipe and Lytag. We are the largest supplier of Lytag for the drainage industry and command a very competitive price.

If you are considering using Lytag, give us a call, we may be able to supply it cheaper than buying it direct from Lytag!


Golf Green Drainage
Shelton specialises in manufacturing machinery for golf greens drainage. We undertake this work through our hire and contracting divisions. The cost of reconstructing a golf green to USGA specification can be prohibitive, in the region of £25,000. Shelton have developed two machines in their range capable of draining a golf green with minimal disturbance, at a fraction of the rebuilding cost. This work causes minimal disturbance enabling play to resume almost immediately.

The first of these is the single leg Shelton gravel band drainer. The machine installs 25mm wide bands of gravel or Lytag at depths from 100mm to 350mm. Ground conditions must be moist for the machine to work effectively, so this work is carried out during the winter months. Work rates are in the region of 1½ average sized greens per day using 2-3 men.

The second machine we use is Shelton System 25™. 25mm wide bands of Lytag or gravel are installed from 200mm to 450mm deep using a wheeled trencher coupled to a vibrating backfilling hopper. Ground conditions must be dry or slightly moist for this machine to operate efficiently.

Working on a partnership basis an average sized green can be drained from as little as £650.00 + VAT.

Photographs and articles on recently completed projects are available on request.

Please feel free to contact us today to discuss your specific requirements.

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